Into the Wilderness: Map 4

Into the Wilderness: Map 4 is a map-pack by Crooked Staff Publishing that depicts the layout of a single wilderness encounter area (in this instance a circle of standing stones).

What follows is a brief preview of what is contained in this product:

A pdf booklet containing three versions of the same map; one overlaid with a square grid, one overlaid with a hex grid, and one with no grid overlay at all.

Each map (i.e. the square grid, hex grid, and gridless version) is also provided as a jpg image optimised for use with virtual tabletops (note that these have been scaled at 50 pixels per grid square)

In addition, all three versions of the map have been supplied as multi-page, miniatures scale, pdfs - so that they can also be used as impromptu battle-mats*

*Please note that the battlemaps are not intended to be comparable to high-resolution dungeon tiles (as there are far better options for that kind of thing available from other sources), but are rather a simple and effective way of transforming this wilderness map into a quick battlemat (should the need arise).

These products were created by scanning an original printed edition. Most older books are in scanned image format because original digital layout files never existed or were no longer available from the publisher.

For PDF download editions, each page has been run through Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software to attempt to decipher the printed text. The result of this OCR process is placed invisibly behind the picture of each scanned page, to allow for text searching. However, any text in a given book set on a graphical background or in handwritten fonts would most likely not be picked up by the OCR software, and is therefore not searchable. Also, a few larger books may be resampled to fit into the system, and may not have this searchable text background.

For printed books, we have performed high-resolution scans of an original hardcopy of the book. We essentially digitally re-master the book. Unfortunately, the resulting quality of these books is not as high. It's the problem of making a copy of a copy. The text is fine for reading, but illustration work starts to run dark, pixellating and/or losing shades of grey. Moiré patterns may develop in photos. We mark clearly which print titles come from scanned image books so that you can make an informed purchase decision about the quality of what you will receive.

Original electronic format

These ebooks were created from the original electronic layout files, and therefore are fully text searchable. Also, their file size tends to be smaller than scanned image books. Most newer books are in the original electronic format. Both download and print editions of such books should be high quality.